“I no longer think of time in terms of individual days — now it’s a continuous and never-ending flow. It’s largely irrelevant to me whether the sky is black or blue. Instead of scheduling my work into separate days, my to-do list has become an ongoing queue. This is causing some problems for me though. The main problem is a complete lack of balance between work, family, exercise, personal tasks, etc. Because I can work 20 hours a day, I often succumb to the temptation to do so. There’s always ”one more task“ to be done. And with no lengthy nighttime sleep period to force a reboot, when I get into ”work mode,“ I find it hard to stop. It no longer makes any sense for me to say, ”Well, I’m done for the day. I’ll pick this up again tomorrow.“ There is no tomorrow. For me this is still the same day as Halloween. Everything is just a certain number of hours away.”

“I also missed sleeping with my wife. However, she really liked having the bed all to herself at night. She said she never slept better. She actually didn’t want me to go back to monophasic. But what I really missed was having 90 minutes less with her while she was awake. Our time together was often interrupted by my naps, especially the one at 9pm. For example, we couldn’t start watching a movie together at 8pm without it being interrupted by a nap intermission.”